Mobility scooter-related injuries and deaths

Keren McKenna; Amanda Tovell; Sophie Pointer; James Harrison; Stacey Avefua

Mobility scooter-related injuries and deaths

Keren McKenna, Amanda Tovell, Sophie Pointer, James Harrison, Stacey Avefua

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Abstract

More than 4,500 people were admitted to hospital for a possible mobility scooter-related injury between 2011–12 and 2015–16, including 121 cases involving a pedestrian who was injured in a collision with a mobility scooter. Compared with a decade earlier, fall injuries most likely from a mobility scooter have increased for older Australians aged 60 and over—from about 200 to about 500 each year. Over the 10 years from 2006–07 to 2015–16, a total of 69 people aged 60 and over died from a mobility scooter-related incident.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781760545147
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2019

Publication series

Name	Injury research and statistics
No.	121

Keywords

Mobility Scooter
Injury
Death

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